113 • Women's right to labor and equality of wage; • Women should not be employed to do jobs that do not suit their nature for protection and specificity considerations; - The Law decides on granting a fully paid 14-week delivery leave extendable to 16 weeks if more than one birth was given. She also has the right during 18 months from the date of delivery to enjoy no less than a total of one hour work suspension during working hours of the day for breast feeding, which are considered as paid working hours. - The Law obligates employers to provide well-equipped places as child nurseries; - No constraints are placed on women in benefiting from credit facilities or with regard to procedures of issuing license for running economic activity; - Women enjoy all social privileges and guarantees set forth in the Social Security Law no 13 for 1981ensuring social protection for all Libyans, males and females, while at work and on reaching the age of retirement; As a result, the percentage of Libyan women participation in economic activity according to the 1964 census incrementally rose by (4%) and ten years later, by (6%), doubling to (11%) for the 1984 census. It continued rising until it amounted to one fifth the number of females at the age of work in the early years of the third millennium. The ratio of female contribution to the labor force has increased reaching 29.5% for 2006 census, compared to 14.5% in 1984. Women participation in economic and social activities was tangibly varied to involve a wide spectrum of scientific, managerial and leadership-based professions. The Libyan women have been engaged in professions many women worldwide still find inaccessible in fields like judiciary and police.

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